Josiah Whitney

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Josiah Whitney is affiliated with the following schools: Yale University, University of Iowa, Harvard University

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Josiah Whitney

Earth Sciences

#634

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Tectonics

#101

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According to Wikipedia, Josiah Dwight Whitney was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University , and chief of the California Geological Survey . Through his travels and studies in the principal mining regions of the United States, Whitney became the foremost authority of his day on the economic geology of the U.S. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, and the Whitney Glacier, the first confirmed glacier in the United States, on Mount Shasta, were both named after him by members of the Survey.

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Josiah Whitney's Published Works

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Report of progress and synopsis of the field-work, from 1860 to 1864 (13)
Report on the Geology and Topography of a Portion of the Lake Superior Land District in the State of Michigan (10)
The auriferous gravels of the Sierra Nevasa of California (7)
Report on the geology of the Lake Superior land district (6)
The auriferous gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California / by J. D. Whitney. (6)
Report on the geological survey of Wisconsin (6)
Primitive Man (1876) (4)
The Chinese Loess Puzzle (1877) (4)
The Azoic System And Its Proposed Subdivisions (2)
Metallic wealth of the United States (2)
Geology of Lake Superior. (1883) (2)
The climatic changes of later geological times : a discussion based on observations made in the Cordilleras of North America / by J.D. Whitney. (1)
Notice of the explorations of the Geological Survey of California in the Sierra Nevada during the summer of 1864 (1865) (1)
Note on the occurrence of the Primordial fauna in Nevada (1872) (1)
On the chemical composition of pectolite (1860) (0)
Geology of Lake Superior (1883) (0)
Plain, Prairie, and Forest (1876) (0)
Analyses of pectolite and stellite, and proposed union of these two species (0)
Chemical examination of a mineral containing oxide of uranium, from the north shore of lake superior (1850) (0)
The climatic changes of later geological times : a discuasion based on observations made in the Cordilleras of North America (0)
Plain, Prairie, and Forest (1876) (0)
Progress of the Geological Survey of California (1864) (0)

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